Laugh with Embarrassment

I have a question for you:
What does Indian Television mean to you?
You yourself may find lot of ambiguity in your answers.
Here is what it means to me on the other side may be a funny side...

Last 8-10 years have been a revolution to the highly rated channels due to some female 'kapoor' handling the high time entertainment specifically to women dominated society (no male is ignored here... its just women being high in number. pardon me...). Yes I am talking about the small screen revolutionary serials. I call it "Laugh with Embarrassment". Especially the names are rocking and the most common is revolving right in your head, isn't it? Earlier post I talked about my unwillingness being tested till its justified when I am sitting next to my mother in front of high pitch musical drama (serials). The Saas-Bahu serials are so magnificently portrayed that no matter what, they are leaving traces in every home. At least the serials should start with "Please Do Not Try This At Home". Many women are deadly influenced by the characters. Some are flexible in practicing at home... lol.

Negative shades in characters (suits women fantasies... in serials!!! kidding me), imagine the same vilan for more than 50 episodes (Pls explain why should one watch it for 50 episodes?). The mandir sequences are almost filled with terrible accidents while climbing the stairs or stepping down and no wonder the mandir is almost same in most serials. The another baffling question in my mind... Is there a need for hard core make-up while sleeping? Oh No What the... Need???
I dont disagree with them and their intentions as they have succeeded in taking efforts to make my mother weep for at least an hour daily. I am damn sure of this being the case with every other mother. In other countries they call series but here they call serials. Simple reason - Have you ever noticed they are serially linked. One serial shows re-incarnation of a character and the same is adopted by other serials too. Here we decide whether its emotional attyachaar, mental torture or fun. I always go with first 2 choices. It will be no surprise to see SONY TV changing its name to CID TV in few days time.

Everyone has seen Reality shows. Say singing and dancing shows, run for money shows... fine till here, then why does their limitations and our patience tested by bringing up shows like dulha mil gaya and crap. I always think who must be wasting 1 hour daily of life to watch the so called "celebrities"... Instead one would go and bathe for that hour to get the least satisfaction of being clean and decent. Wasteful bogus acts. Other such acts of reality shows to increase TRP: the judges fighting amongst themselves, slogging participants for no reasons, etc. instead of promoting their talents. How cheap it sounds!!!

What is world so good without advertisements? Nowadays products are not at all famous for their quality but surely for the scintillating ads. Have you seen the most intolerable recent ad of Nirma. Hell... I imagine T.V. in one corner, Me on the other side facing T.V with remote in one hand... Hand stretched face distorted ready for a shot and here I go.... .... .... booooooooooooom and say "FO with your powder"...(Sorry for impatient offense). On the other hand Axe Effect ads are more interesting and... you can control your uninterrupted naughty smiles guys :)
The telebrand ads... A popular ad: Increase your height by 4-7 inches in 3 months. Imagine what a revolution it would be considering heights of everything... buildings, cars, doors, beds, etc. increasing due to increase in heights of people using these annoying methodologies. Pathetic.
Also the cold drink ad - kyun ki kutta bhi peeta hai and dar ke aage jeet hai... Hello. Please reason me out. Such ads must be censored with F - ratings ('F' means Faulty guys, pls dont use the word in your mind...).

News channels: Another source of laughter. Earlier Breaking news was the news of some big disaster or problem or conspiracy but today every news is breaking news. It comes scrolling below... BREAKING NEWS: Saap ne bandar ko kata aur bandar behosh... BREAKING NEWS: Kaatil ne kiya pyaar... BREAKING NEWS: Building ke upar se chillaya kaun?. Is this even a news? It freaks me.

Have you ever seen South films. You need to watch it if you have missed. I saw a high action drama movie last time and felt the urge to wake up dead scientists as I learnt that the laws of gravitation are being reinvented. The flying fights with 1/10th gravity... mindblowing yanna ras**la: MINDDD ITTT. :-) I am sure these films will make your day. Another observation was their dance with heart stopping beats, so fast so furious that the second step was already over before my eye catched the first one.
Another catchy sequence...
Trendz and FTV are becoming more sophisticated channels as Bollywood is not leaving any stone turned to get the rights of showing what FTV or Trendz have never thought of showing. Imagine director saying to actor "Kissing scene is so undervalued these days, you have to work on intimate scenes from now on... " and actor says "Please Sir I want to show up my acting skills at least now..." Ohhhhhh cut retake! retake! retake!

If by ne chance there were no women, there would be only one channel 'Doordarshan' - no doubt. But as a byproduct of reproduction even God had no other choice. :) Talking about doordarshan, its the slowest channel on earth or in the whole universe or even can say in the limits of space. Even the newly originated planets with newly invented Television would have faster broadcasting.

All in all if you can see the world of television in India in a different way I am sure you can laugh your heart out. :)

"Love what you see and Enjoy what you love"

TanY. :)